Attended and successfully passed the “Innovation Management” Course at RWTH Business School in coordination with Maastricht School of Management.
I gained valuable theoretical and practical knowledge in innovation management which could be used for preparation for interdisciplinary leadership roles. Creating and managing new technological knowledge is a key success factor of most firms.
The course provided me with an introduction into innovation management from both the perspective of a manager who has to make decisions about the firm’s technology and innovation management processes and from the perspective of an academic researcher studying these decisions.
The focus was both on strategic aspects of setting up the capabilities and competences of a firm to innovate and on the particular tasks and processes to manage one product/service development project.
- Characteristics of innovation.
- Stages and methods of the innovation process.
- Creativity and technical problem solving as core activities of innovation.
- Networks & alliances for innovation; distributed / open innovation.
- Technological change, S-curves, and disruptive innovation as core concepts of technology management.
- Launch and marketing of new products.
